epic 4 G battery going for days

[mojomojo]

Its all in the settings>about phone>battery use>Then you touch each bar graph and it gives detailed info.

What app are you using to track this info? thx

 

[ovrrdrive]

This did the trick on our epic too. Thanks.

 

[omgitsspooky]

What are you sacrificing if you shut DRM off?

 

[nchargreed]

What are you sacrificing if you shut DRM off?

Nobody seems to know the answer to this question. I asked it days ago and there has been no response.

By the way, turning DRM off did nothing to extend my battery life.

 

[Frisco]

Good question. Don't want to muck things up without knowing what the hell it does first. Anyone?

DRM is a licensed service to protect copywrited software, "Digital Rights Management" service.

I took mine out a while back and have as yet seen no ill effects (rooted Fascinate).


http://www.eff.org/pages/customer-always-wrong-users-guide-drm-online-music/

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/drm/default.mspx

 

[Thai]

By the same way, why does it apparently eat so much battery???

For me, no difference but my live wallpaper is a major battery killer...and I love my Aquarium wallpaper!

 

[nchargreed]

DRM is a licensed service to protect copywrited software, "Digital Rights Management" service.

I took mine out a while back and have as yet seen no ill effects (rooted Fascinate).


The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's Guide to DRM in Online Music | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Digital Rights Management (DRM)

So, what action does it perform that depletes the batteries on certain Epics? And, any idea why turning this off doesn't work in all circumstances?

 

[Howard Packer]

Turned mine off a couple of days ago. I don't really see a difference in battery life.

 

[JUSTQUAN2]

Yea, i dont see much either. Guess i will go ahead and pay for juicedefender. Im a phone abuser and 1.5 to 2hrs battery life is trash. Really starting to piss me off.

 

[saxologist]

Thanks for the tip. I did what you said after my phone had a full charge at 5pm yesterday. I've now been unplugged for 21hr and 22 min and still at 45% power. This is with about 15 texts, 4 phone calls (36 minutes total), 22 minutes browsing, 10 hrs wi-fi use, and auto brightness. I never really tracked exact before, but I know that's a huge improvement. Oh yeah, my gps has been on the whole time too. This is all 3g, as I don't have 4g. Thanks again!

I am glad this works for you...

 

[Twistax]

I own an EVO, but my wife has a Epic so i am responding to the "What doe DRM do?" question.

My understanding is that DRM is basically a type of encryption method for media such as music and videos. This basically keeps other devices(other brands) from being able to read content(media) such as different DVD players may not be able to read certain DRM formated DVDs. Basically it prevents Cross access to media.

Why this is on an ANDROID phone is beyond my understanding. I am running an HTC EVO and I have a DRM app that was running on it as well. I disabled it to see if i see any improvement on my EVO.